---------- From: Lisa Kimball To: Holman, Peggy Subject: open space at virtual civicnet conference Date: April 20, 1997 7:30AM
Hi! We're going to be doing a very exciting Open Space "event" on the web May 22 - June 30. CivicNet is a virtual conference bringing together people involved in civic and community networking from all over the U.S. and many from other countries. We'll be talking about some of the ways technology can leverage efforts to increase the range of stakeholders involved in discussions about the future. In addition to the Open Space activities, there will also be keynote "speakers" including Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Carolyn Lukensmeyer, co-director of Gore's reinventing government project and now director of America Speaks which seeks to support projects to increase civic dialogue. Workshops will include facilitated sessions to explore how various group processes can be used in this context including Scenarios and Future Search. Harrison and others have been advising on the design of the Open Space in cyberspace and any other OSI'ers who choose to participate in CivicNet will be instantly conscripted <grin> for the design team. To check it out and sign up come to http://www.tmn.com/civicnet I think this will be a lot of fun. It will also be a significant event for those interested in community networking so please pass this along to anyone you know who should be involved! * lisa =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = Lisa Kimball (l...@tmn.com) Voice: 703.243.6622 FAX: 703.841.9798 Metasystems Design Group, Inc., 2000 N 15th St. #103, Arlington, VA 22201 http://www.tmn.com/~lisa -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=